Sasha Walpole says she almost fell off her sofa when teenage romp with prince ... trends now

Sasha Walpole says she almost fell off her sofa when teenage romp with prince ... trends now
Sasha Walpole says she almost fell off her sofa when teenage romp with prince ... trends now

Sasha Walpole says she almost fell off her sofa when teenage romp with prince ... trends now

Prince Harry did not do Sasha Walpole the courtesy of telling her he was revealing their long-ago sexual liaison in his memoir Spare, she reveals today. The 40-year-old married mother-of-two was watching television when she found out via a WhatsApp message from a friend. She was so startled she almost fell off her sofa.

She feared there were enough clues in the book for people to identify her as the woman who’d taken Harry’s virginity – and that she would soon be ‘outed’ around the world.

‘I kept this a secret for 21 years. I did it because Harry was a friend, regardless of whether he’s a Prince or not. I didn’t invite any of this attention, but I know the hunt would have kept going until people found me. I don’t understand why he went into such detail. He could have said he lost his virginity and left it at that. But he described how it happened – in a field behind a pub.

‘That’s fine if you’re not the other person involved. But if you’re me, then you suddenly feel as if your world is getting a little bit smaller.’

She felt that the Prince, who has made his right to privacy a crusade in his new, post-Royal life in Montecito, California, with wife Meghan, had intruded on hers.

Sasha Walpole, who is now a digger driver, has revealed that she was the one that had sex first with Prince Harry in a field

Sasha and Prince Harry pictured as youngsters. Left to right: Emma Lippiatt, Sasha Walpole (nee Alvis), Prince Harry and Lizzie Ward at The Beaufort Polo Club, near Tetbury, Gloucestershire

Sasha and Prince Harry pictured as youngsters. Left to right: Emma Lippiatt, Sasha Walpole (nee Alvis), Prince Harry and Lizzie Ward at The Beaufort Polo Club, near Tetbury, Gloucestershire

His revelation of their teenage sex came after he accepted a reported £17 million advance for his book from publisher Penguin Random House. Spare became the fastest-selling non-fiction book in the UK since records began in 1998, and sold 3.2 million copies worldwide in the first week of publication. It is expected to become one of the bestselling memoirs of all time.

She says: ‘It is his story, and he’s entitled to write what he wants. He didn’t name me but people who were there that night, or simply part of that social circle, would be able to work out it was me.

‘Possibly, Harry could have thought about that before publishing. He could have found me if he had tried.’

Harry has been dedicated to maintaining his privacy and that of Meghan and their children, Archie, three, and Lilibet, one, since marriage and Megxit. But even before then, in an interview he gave to the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show in 2016 about the Invictus Games, he stated that ‘everyone has a right to privacy,’ and that the interest in his life verged on the ‘unnecessary’. 

Sasha is too loyal to be angry, or to accuse him of hypocrisy, but she is filled with disbelief that her ordinary domestic life has been upended for the sake of four lines in his memoir.

In Spare, Harry, a self-declared feminist, recalls his sexual encounter with Sasha in unchivalrous terms

In Spare, Harry, a self-declared feminist, recalls his sexual encounter with Sasha in unchivalrous terms

Sasha said: 'I kept this a secret for 21 years. I did it because Harry was a friend, regardless of whether he’s a Prince or not'. Pictured: Sasha on her digger

Sasha said: 'I kept this a secret for 21 years. I did it because Harry was a friend, regardless of whether he’s a Prince or not'. Pictured: Sasha on her digger

Picture of the Miss Piggy Toy Harry bought for Sasha for her birthday

Picture of the Miss Piggy Toy Harry bought for Sasha for her birthday

‘Being exposed in a book is surreal. I’m here in my home in Wiltshire with my husband Ian and my kids and – 21 years later – this.’

She was also justifiably scared of the real-life consequences.

‘Panic cut in. I live in a quiet area and it got to the stage when a strange car drove by I’d think, “Is this it?” I worried that I’d wake up one morning and find a barrage of cameras outside my house.’

As social media messages flooded in from friends who’d either guessed or who already knew, Sasha felt she had to act.

Like the Prince 5,000 miles away on the West Coast of America, she has small children to protect. And, having had a taste of media attention once before when she was pictured with Harry at a polo match in 2001, she knew how intrusive it could be.

‘I wanted to take control of the situation before it took control of me, which is why I am revealing that, yes, I am the woman who took Harry’s virginity.

‘I would never have spoken out if Harry hadn’t. I’m not that sort of person. If I was going to talk about it, I could have done so a long time ago. He has brought it to my door by writing about it.’

In Spare, Harry, a self-declared feminist, recalls his sexual encounter with Sasha in unchivalrous terms. He says: ‘Inglorious episode, with an older woman. She liked horses, quite a lot, and treated me not unlike a young stallion. Quick ride, after which she’d smacked my rump and sent me off to graze. Among the many things about it that were wrong: It happened in a grassy field behind a busy pub.’

Sasha larking about at a charity night in The Vine Tree pub

Harry larking about at a charity night in The Vine Tree pub

Sasha (left) and Harry (right) larking about at a charity night in The Vine Tree pub

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